Vulkan Virgl Has Kicked Off For Supporting This Graphics/Compute API Within VMs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vulkan Virgl Has Kicked Off For Supporting This Graphics/Compute API Within VMs

Of the hundreds of projects for this year's Google Summer of Code, there are many interesting GSoC 2018 projects but one of those that I am most excited for is Vulkan-Virgl for getting this modern API supported with hardware acceleration by guest virtual machines...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Virgl-Kickoff

[shmerl]

It should be called virvolk (or may be werewolf?) or something of the sort Virgl doesn't fit already.

[R41N3R]

I assume it will be virvk... but virvolk sounds great :-) Anyway it's great to see this project gets started! I hope that some compositors like kwin will get Vulkan support soon as well!

[ssorgatem]

I can see DXVK, Vk12 and Vk9 in Windows VMs to get DirectX support through this in the future.

[timofonic]

I can see DXVK, Vk12 and Vk9 in Windows VMs to get DirectX support through this in the future.

That's my dream, qemu using DXVK and Wine code for it